Gadgetory

this is the kyocera echo that's coming to sprint next month it's the first dual screen android handset actually one of the first dual screen handsets period smartphones anyway so right now it's obviously in tablet mode and tablet mode to to enable the tablet functionality where where you have browsers going across screen and what not seems like you actually have to download a free app from the from the market so let's see if we can do that looks like we're getting a signal in here it seems to allow it all right so let's take a look at the hardware with real quick obviously the thing most people are going to be interested in is the opening and closing functionality here and as you can see it's not easy to do with one hand but people will usually be doing it with two hands let's see here we go okay so let's see if you can see the side here a little bit so this is how it works from this angle like folds over and then you just have a single screen and then it folds back now it's in landscape now it's and portrait so honestly the opening closing mechanism feels really chintzy here I'm not sure if this is final hardware or not but you can see the you know the hinges seem to be plastic it the whole device is really really plasticky you know except for the chrome bezel here really you know not something that that we would expect out of it was probably going to be a you know a flagship device for the carrier it seems to have moved screens here so around the back we've got the camera sorry about my hands yeah it's a little difficult to manipulate this just one hand you can see and again that opening and closing mechanism just doesn't feel real solid and see you know even on this demo unit which really hasn't been used at all probably it's just not real smooth so let's check out the speed on this thing if we can going to go to browser echo by kyocera so you know they have the page is set up and right now it's going to be on evo this seems to be just a mobile page but you know scrolling seems okay pretty standard go out to the main screen here see how scrolling is on the home screen I'm sorry on the app screen it's okay a little little bit jerky not that bad though all right you can see there's no no search button on the bottom you just got home menu back so I'm not sure what if the apps that are on here actually going to be indicative of what it's shipping with know what movies is C or just a flixster application an exciting there all right so go back home um and finally let's just see for the heck of it what what android version they have running on here and go to the about phone I'm 9,500 and your that 2.21 froyo okay we're back home here one more thing we wanted to check out was how the camera interface looks so let's see if it's like they don't have that on the home screens and Dora here we go camera now obviously this device doesn't have wimax so you know there's no need to do a speed test on that and you can see here in a pretty basic camera interface I'm not sure oh here probably push the menu button again gallery alright so you know really not too much going on here so again this is the kyocera echo by Sprint the first little screen oh you might as well check out the browser on here too in an open tablet mode Oh see when you open the phone only the left button seem to be active not the not the ones that on what used to be the top screen so that's kind of interesting going to the browser in here all right to launch a second application this little simulcasting alright so you can see there's there's quite a wide gap here actually in between the two screens a little bit wider than it looks like in the press shots turn it sideways here doesn't seem to be rotating there we go alright so this is the the kyocera echo and coming next month bunch sprint not super impressed here but you know like we said this might just be not final production hardware yet there might be some more it's a more metal and a bit more quality but that we also don't recommend trying to use this with one hand when you get it thank you very much